George Lucas

Career high point: The original "Star Wars" trilogy

Career low point: The prequel "Star Wars" trilogy

How to fix it: When people talk about how "Star Wars" is broken beyond repair, it's apparent they aren't people who watch the "Clone Wars" animated series, which is doing the exact kind of storytelling on a regular basis that fans claim they wanted. And why? Because it's a playground that Lucas set up that he lets other writers and directors explore, and they grew up loving the "Star Wars" iconography. Lucas has told the story he wanted to tell, and in two quick steps, he could silence the whiners forever. All he needs to do is release a pristine Blu-ray of the untouched theatrical versions of the original trilogy, and then greenlight a new ongoing series of movies that he produces but allows other people to write and direct, set in the larger "Star Wars" world without any obligation to the Skywalker family saga. His talk of personal experimental films is fine for the soul, but if he wants to turn around the noise-making that he complains about every time he's interviewed, letting loose his most significant property is the way to make it happen.

Looking at alot of these actors , yes they have made some bad choices , some more than others , but Mike myers and Eddie Murphy have a little think called shrek witch although might not have given them come back credit between all the movies it has given them over 100 million dollars so , whether they want to be in the "hot list " again or not they certainly ain't hurting , and love guru wasn't all that bad , but i think the reason it tanked was because it was Austin powers with a different character , but that being said he has the ability that a lot don't and that's to create his own characters , that's what he needs to get back to , but anything fresh and different , I mean look at the A.P movies , they were gold mines , cheap to produce and made 2-3 hundred million some domesticly so he needs to brain storm , we havnt seen the last of him ! Muhaaaaa!

Was she ever a star ? On her own ? I mean yeah the had sex and the city wich i guess was popular but her as an individual what good movies has the done , as the lead ? Plus a lot of ppl can't get over her writing herself as this hot sexy Slut in sex and the city but there's one thing wrong with that , SHE IS FUGLY , LIKE BAD , if she wasn't the writer or producer or w/e she wouldn't have been in that show lol

That's really your individual take. She was not the producer of the extremely popular tv Sex and the city. She didn't select herself for the role. Somebody must have thought that she was a good actress and fitted the role. And they weren't disappointed. She indeed was the most popular of the girls, she was the star of the show. As for looks, not every attractive person must have a doll face.

Are you both INSANE?? Sarah Jessica Parker was the lead actress for the television show Sex and the City, not Katherine Horkel.

I still have no idea how Heigel ended up being one of the most popular characters on Grey's. As for range, I can tell you that as a trained actor who's been on television myself, NO, she has none. She stuck to her same old tricks instead of real technique while on that show, and it's always stuck in my craw that she thought so highly of herself as to think she could pull off being a movie star. Hubris. Comes back to bite you in your ass every time.

personally i along with a million other thought katherine heigl is a fantastic actress and was brilliant in greys anatomy and is sorely missed,if you was as good as actress as her maybe we would have heard of you and you woulnt be reduced to insulting her on internet forums as she obviously DOES have talent or she would never have starred in one of the top tv shopws of our time and made numerous films,jealousy is a bad thing.

He is fine , used to not care for him but point break ! Good movie , then matrix , wich was offered to will smith who I am a big fan of but those movies worked because of keanu it was made for his persona worked perfect , and he still is making good films , he was great in street kings , he needs to do more films like that , action suspense

Decent few movies but can't get over how unattractive she is , her beat movies are the one she plays manly in , good work with clint eastwood tho , o and back to George Lucas he has given his life to give his fans what they want , let him do a few private projects , he is in a lot of stuff behind the sencnes , plus he had nothing to worry about , that's allowed with a net worth of around 3 billion

Please keep in mind that you aren't commenting on individual slideshows; you can only comment on the slideshow as a whole. As such none of the comments you're leaving even say who you're talking about. I can figure it out, but seriously.

Does Nic Cage's career need to be saved? His films (and acting styles) may be controversial among audiences and critics, but I can't remember many movies of his, that tanked. I even read a while ago (can't find the link, sorry), that he is still one of the most profitable stars in Hollywood!

Also I wouldn't call OSMOSIS JONES the low point of the Farellys. It's a highly underrated movie. Especially compared to FEVER PITCH, THE HEARTBREAK KID and HALL PASS.

Don't know about Gibson's acting career, but I'm sure he will continue to blow everybody's mind as director.

And does anyone care what George Lucas is doing? The fans are still buying his merchandise and every new version of his movies on home video, even though they seem to hate four of the six Star Wars movies and still haven'T decided if the current CLONE WARS show is good or not.

Do we really WANT Stephen Sommers to be saved? He made one so-bad-it's-fun movie with DEEP RISING and one bad-but-watchable one with G.I. Joe, but apart from that, he is one of the blandest and most incompetent filmmakers in Hollywood (with a talent for putting seriously gruesome deaths in PG-13 movies!)

I think it's very clear that Chris Tucker doesn't want to be saved. He makes every few years a movie for a huge paycheck, then disappears and then returns when he wants to. It's not that he is shooting crappy DTV kids movies or something like that.

Well, let's see: Chris Tucker is an Eddie Murphy wannabe, Lindsay Lohan needs to get back to her natural red hair and move to New York and do stage and TV work to rebuild her career, Halle Berry should do a romantic comedy and SJP should try her hand at drama. Katherine Heigl seems to have burned bridges thanks to her ego and finds herself persona non grata in Hollywood, but Catherine Zeta-Jones doesn't belong obn this list: first she spent the past two years taking care of her family as Michael fought cancer, and also she managed to win a Tony for "A Little Night Music" on Broadway. Hopefully someone will do a new movie version with her and Angela Lansbury doing their roles from the Broadway revival.

I love the Odd Thomas book, but when I found out it was Stephen Sommers directing (and writing) it...all excitement for the movie went out the window. Though, if he can pull off that movie, it'll be a miracle.

I think the only way to save Adam Sandler, is to make two or three of his movies in a row tank hard at the box office. He obviously doesn't care anymore, as long as the money keeps coming. But even though I know many people who claim he never was funny, I pretty much loved every thing he did between BILLY MADISON and DEEDS. After that...nothing.

Brendan Fraser...oh man, he really needs to work with the right people, doing the right material. He annoys me most of the time, but then he was so great in BLAST FROM THE PAST, his three episodes of SCRUBS and...yes, I say it, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (Say what you want about this movie, but he was absolutely perfect in it.)

Didn't Catherine Zeta-Jones win a Tony a year or two back? Perhaps she could have a whole new career on stage? She was once a pretty good actress, and I'm all in favor of heavier actresses getting respect (ala Monique/Melissa McCarthy), but it appears she is taking the Anjelica Huston approach by becoming almost mannish as she ages. The difference? Huston comes from a royal family of Hollywood and actually has built an entire career for herself, not just a few good movies in a pretty hapless career.

Uma Thurman has the greatest potential for a comeback, with Zeta-Jones in a distant 2nd place.

How do you define success in Hollywood? By critical acclaim or financial success? If it's by financial success then George Lucas's hollywood career is doing very well, thank you very much.

If he wants critical acclaim then he needs to set aside his massive ego and listen to the fans. Like his buddy Spielberg did.

Steven Spielberg tried tampering with ET by using CGI to animate ET in some scenes and by replacing the soldier's guns with walkie-talkies. Fans of the film hated these 'improvements'. Spielberg listened to his fans and said he would never do that again and released ET in its original theatrical format. Spielberg gets it.

Why won't Lucas do that? Why won't he listen to his fans and release a pre-Special Edition Star Wars on blu-ray? Would it be cost effective? Would it put more money in his coffers? Almost assuredly yes.

But that would mean conceding to the fans. That would be admitting that people prefer his old work and reject the numerous 'improvements' and prefer his 'unfinished' versions that were made in the day where technology had not caught up to his vision.

When George Lucas calls the shots and won't listen to anyone else you end up with the much maligned Star Wars prequels, Indy 4 and Red Tails. The latter of which will probably end up being his most commercial failure financially.

From recent interviews it seems that Lucas seems determined to take his ball and go home rather than listen to criticism and take it to heart.

It's time for a new visionary to come along and create a new universe. Surely Star Wars and Star Trek can't be the only SF franchises that we can come up with.

"It's time for a new visionary to come along and create a new universe. Surely Star Wars and Star Trek can't be the only SF franchises that we can come up with." I don't think I've ever agreed more with a comment in my life, It is hard to believe how there haven't been more Space sagas down through the years, I suspect the reason is that Star Wars was so good that no one want's to take it on....

Lucas is worth 3.5 BILLION dollars - he can afford to take his ball and go home. He has enough money and critical acclaim to last a lifetime - no, a hundred lifetimes. The idea that his career needs to be "saved" is ludicrous.

This meager attempt at entertainment is a joke! Honestly, some of the people listed on this list are among my favorite actors and actresses, many of which I might add, have amazingly successful careers. I think if someone is going to go out of their way of making up such list people should spend a little more time doing their research and selecting appropriate people. I just think it is a joke that almost everyone listed have been responsible for representing some of our favorite characters from our most remembered movies.

I agree. Half of the people on here are already legends. If you have already made hundreds of millions of dollars (Mike Myers, George Lucas, etc) and you want to take a break or only do projects you are interested in that's your business. This article is a joke and this writer should never be allowed on this site again.

I think you are analyzing this list a little too much... You are right on the fact that MOST are great actors and do not need to work again. I think the writer is trying to say these actors/directors were once on the top of every list for movies. They are just couple of steps away from that royalty again. That is it!!!